When you host your site with Writerspace, you can choose to design and maintain the site yourself or use Writerspace's award-winning web design service. You may also choose to use a third party for design and maintenance. Of course, Writerspace specializes in developing a complete package for authors that includes design, hosting, maintenance, and promotion for your site as well integrating your own "brand identity" into the community of readers at Writerspace.

Design

If you choose to use Writerspace for your website, we will first talk in depth about your vision for your website. You'll have a number of options that will determine the style and tone of the site. We'll discuss your preferences in regard to design/colors/format, etc. We design all of the graphics specifically for your site, and they will not be re-used on other authors' sites. Before the site goes live, we will provide you with several different design motifs from which to choose. Please feel free to browse our portfolio and see some of our web designs in action.

Maintenance

With Writerspace you have the option of hiring, not just a web designer or web host, but a webmaster as well. If you choose to have us maintain your site, we will receive and respond to email inquiries from fans, and perform regular maintenance checks of all pages. The monthly maintenance contract will also provide for any site updates, design changes/additions, images scans, page creation as needed.

Promotion

If you sign on for a full Premium Site Package, we will also manage any contests you wish to promote through the site, maintain your mailing list subscriptions, write and distribute an electronic newsletter to your list, and actively promote your site with banner ads and bookcover postcards at Writerspace as well as through search engines and other romance sites, posts to listservs and bulletin boards. We will also routinely sending out press releases to publishers, book sellers, agents and other off-line media for new site launches, special events, etc.